Halimah (حليمة) is from the Arabic ḥalīma — "gentle, patient, mild-tempered." Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic tradition. Halimah Yacob (born 1954) — Singaporean politician; in 2017, at age 63, became the eighth President of Singapore and the first woman to hold that office; the first head of state of Indian-Malay heritage. The first Singaporean Malay president since Yusof Ishak in the 1960s. Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore (2013-2017) — also the first woman Speaker. Lawyer who began her career at the National Trades Union Congress (1978-2011), rising to NTUC director. Stepped down as President in 2023. Halimah Yacob was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (2024). Halimah Khalfan Said — Tanzanian feminist activist. Halimah Saadia Khalifah — Bahraini ambassador. "Halimah Sa'diyya" was a major Egyptian Islamic charity figure of the 1960s.
Subject of countless 2017 Singapore presidential election retrospectives.
Halimah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Halimah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.